EIFL has signed a call for urgent action to ensure that every community has access to at least one free, publicly-available, adequately connected internet access point.

The call was initiated by the Partnership for Public Access (P4PA). It coincides with the World Bank Annual Meeting on Closing the Digital Divide that takes place online today from 10-11am ET / 14:00-15:00 GMT. 

Teresa Hackett, Manager of the EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme, reports on an unusual five days at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Governance Symposium 2020 - the EOSC’s largest event of the year - will be held online every morning from 19 - 22 October, starting at 9.30am CET.

This 90-minute workshop continues and follows up on the LIBSENSE-III Workshop held in Tunisia from 26 - 28 April 2019. Repository managers, advocates and other open access and open science stakeholders (libraries and library consortia, content and research data providers, National Research and Education Networks - RENS) are welcome to attend the workshop.

EIFL has signed a two-year agreement with academic publisher World Scientific. Under the agreement, corresponding authors from 34 EIFL partner countries will benefit from waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) when publishing their articles in open access in one of 111 World Scientific journals. 

Of the journals, 110 are hybrid and one is fully open access. More journals will be added during the agreement term, which ends on 31 December 2022.

Eligibility is as follows:

EIFL is to participate in the second Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC),’Research Infrastructures shaping EOSC’.